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From: dsmythe@cup.portal.com (dave l smythe)
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Subject: Re: PC Ditto II -- speed?
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Date: 6 May 89 05:19:15 GMT
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Tim Mensch writes:
>The initial release of the IBM PC AT contained a 6Mhz 8086
>processor.  It was only later that they upgraded to 8Mhz and still
>later the 286 processor.
>
This is not true.  I bought my first True-Blue AT in April of '85 and
it was a 6Mhz '286.  As for an 8086 in an AT: never had it, never will.
I bought another (for a client) in May of '86 and they were up to 8Mhz
by then.  But the AT's weren't available much before we got one and the
selling point at introduction was the '286.

Dave Smythe
dsmythe@cup.portal.com